netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/2] cfg80211: fix wireless handlers assignment

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Date:	Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:54:28 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] cfg80211: fix wireless handlers assignment

On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 22:50 +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Sep 2009, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > 
> > I've experimented by moving your NETDEV_PRE_INIT hunk later in the
> > sequence, just before the netdev_initialize_kobject(dev) (so I also
> > changed the "goto out" to "goto err_uninit"): both* machines then boot
> > correctly, and this mail leaves me wirelessly.
> > 
> > I'll now experiment to see how early I can move that hunk.
> 
> Both machines boot (and do wireless) correctly with your NETDEV_PRE_INIT
> hunk placed just after the ndo_init block, instead of just before where
> you placed it.  That's i386 kernels on both.
> 
> But curiouser and curiouser... the laptop can do 64-bit, so I built
> my 64-bit kernel, and went through the motions to reproduce the
> early boot crash with the patch as you had it: but the x86_64 kernel
> boots (and does wireless) correctly with the NETDEV_PRE_INIT hunk
> just where you placed it, before the ndo_init block.
> 
> Perhaps there's a difference in the 32- and 64-bit startup sequence
> with respect to notifiers; or perhaps your change tickles another bug.
> I don't know, I'm turning off now.

Interesting, thanks for taking the time to test. I'll post an updated
patchset that calls it POST_INIT and moves it to there.

johannes

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